February 23rd, 1836...Sam Colt filed the patent papers for his repeating gun, the Paterson Colt. That same day the seige of The Alamo began, and during the next 12 days, a handful of brave Texans fought to the death against Santa Anna's formidible army. Had Sam Colt's invention been built and available before th e Alamo seige, would it have made a difference? We will never know, but those two events changed the Old West and are still the stuff of legends over 175 years later.